| Description |
1 online resource (326 pages) |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction. New Slavery Novels: Nation-ness and Imagination in the New World Context; Chapter One. Using American Slavery to Construct Black Aesthetics; A New Time in the New World; Can You Dig? Identity through Archeology, Rhizomes, and Relation; All Together Now; No Longer the Chain-gang of Theory; Memory vs. History (and Myth); Chapter Two. Dissembling History: Postmodern Irony as Narrative Strategy; Irony and the Impossibility of Writing; The Logic of Double Negatives |
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Moi, Tituba, sorcière ... noire de Salem: Contradiction on Her Own TermsIrony as Alternative to Dialectic in La mulâtresse Solitude; Enriching "National" Identity and Historical Consciousness; Fictionalized History, Historical Fiction in El reino de este mundo; Overcoming Order; Chapter Three. Re( -- )fusing the New World in Accounts of the Middle Passage; Whence Sympathy for the Africans?; Going Alone on a Misguided Quest with Solitude and Tituba; Changó, el gran putas: African in Name, American in Form, Universal in Character |
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Caricature of a Non-existent Essence (A True Philosophical Conundrum) in Middle PassageThe Sign of the Crossing; Chapter Four. Oscillatory Structures, Running Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self; What Running Away Means; The Wandering Perpective in Biografía de un cimarrón; Running Away and Coming Home in Beloved; To Stop; Between Implied Reader and Actual Reader; Oscillatory Identities; Conclusion. Problematics of the Questioning of Identity; Folk Agency and Aesthetic Continuity; The Necessity of Irony for Making Sense in Self-referential Novels; What's in a Word; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cond́e, Maryse. Moi, Tituba, sorcìere
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Schwarz-Bart, André, 1928-2006. Mul̂atresse Solitude
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Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Reino de este mundo.
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Zapata Olivella, Manuel. Chanǵo, el gran putas
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Johnson, Charles, 1948- Middle passage
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Barnet, Miguel, 1940- Biograf́ia de un cimarŕon
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Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. Beloved
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| SUBJECT |
Beloved (Morrison, Toni) fast |
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Biografía de un cimarrón (Montejo, Esteban) fast |
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Changó, el gran putas (Zapata Olivella, Manuel) fast |
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Middle passage (Johnson, Charles) fast |
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Moi, Tituba, sorcière (Condé, Maryse) fast |
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Reino de este mundo (Carpentier, Alejo) fast |
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Black people in literature
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Slavery in literature.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Black people in literature
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Literature
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Slavery in literature
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America -- Literatures -- History and criticism
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America
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135719814 |
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1135719810 |
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